{"id":1079,"date":"2016-02-09T14:37:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T19:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?page_id=1079"},"modified":"2016-02-11T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T00:05:33","slug":"mastering-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?page_id=1079","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Responder: Almost \u2018Chopped Liver\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Almost \u2018Chopped Liver\u2019 by Gary A. Aumiller, PH.D.\u00a0 ABPP This story is told with the permission and review of my patient, John. John is a retired cop, one year younger than I am.\u00a0 He is pale white sometimes and other times he looks remarkably normal.\u00a0 Sometimes he looks weak, sometimes like the man that plays […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology: Choir Practice<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology:\u00a0 Choir Practice by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 In 1975, Joseph Wambaugh named it, when a group of cops go out after their shift for nights of drinking, camaraderie and debauchery.\u00a0 They would get drunk, be obnoxious to regular citizens and have sex with a variety of barmaids, hookers and na\u00efve young […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology: Is Technology Making Us Barefoot, Dumb and Depressed?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology:\u00a0 Is Technology Making Us Barefoot, Dumb and Depressed? by Dr. Gary S. Aumiller \u00a0 Is technology making us barefoot, dumb and depressed?\u00a0 Now I have warned you before, there is no single answer for causes.\u00a0 And that is assuming people are dumber today than usual, which could be a false assumption (although the […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Divorce Part 4: Starting a New Life<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Divorce Part 4: Starting a New Life by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 So, it\u2019s done!\u00a0 The lawyers are gone, the courts are played out, the property and kids are separated and one of you is living in the house or it has been sold.\u00a0 You are situated in a comfortable […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology: Divorce Part 3<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology:\u00a0 Divorce Part 3 by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 \u201cAt first I was afraid, I was petrified.\u00a0 Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side.\u201d So starts the 70\u2019s anthem song about the breakup.\u00a0 Gloria Gaynor in 1978 found silver, gold and platinum, and became the singer of the […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Apocalypse or Utopia: You Decide<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Apocalypse or Utopia:\u00a0 You Decide by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 I have learned a lot in my sixty years about the intricacies of the human mind.\u00a0 I have learned about intelligence, about federal politics and the criminal mind. \u00a0I have learned a lot about women, and especially when to keep […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology: New Year\u2019s Resolutions<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology:\u00a0 New Year\u2019s Resolutions by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 I asked my intern what her New Year\u2019s Resolutions were and she said she wanted to go to the gym more often, graduate college and get a job. She also wanted to make her room less messy. I want to be able to […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Police Divorce Part 2: Hate to Admit<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Police Divorce Part 2: \u00a0Hate to Admit by Dr. Gary S. Aumiller When I was in my late 20\u2019s and just married, I asked a friend of ours (who was really old, a few years short of 40) what was it like to be divorced?\u00a0 Does it feel different?!\u00a0 He had an […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | Police Divorce Part 1: Shutting Down the Blame Game<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | Police Divorce Part 1: Shutting Down the Blame Game by\u00a0 Dr. Gary Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ABPP The real cause of police suicide is divorce or marital problems. Internal affairs investigations are a distant second. I would venture to say when human error comes into play in car chases, and misjudgments by cops, there […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | I\u2019m Dreaming of a RIGHT Christmas<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | I\u2019m Dreaming of a RIGHT Christmas \u00a0 While I was building my police psychology practice when I was starting out, I used to work in a high school as a school psychologist. As part of my program I ran weekly groups for the kids where they could talk and get some advice […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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Police Psychology | You Change Your Underwear, Don\u2019t You<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\t\n\t
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Police Psychology | You Change Your Underwear, Don\u2019t You \u00a0 Police psychology is about change (and police stress\u00a0is often about dealing with change). It could be changing an officer\u2019s life, changing the behavior of a perpetrator, or choosing the officer who will go into an academy and have to deal with a lot of change. […]<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t

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